Improved wardrobe-bedstead



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

w. H. PEAsE, OE DAYTON, OHIO.

IMPROVED WARDPLOBE-BEDSTEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,191, dated October 6, 1863.

To all w71 om it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W. H. PEASE, of the city 'of Dayton, and State of Ohio, haye invented certain new and useful Improvementsl in Wardrobe-Bedsteads; and I hereby declare that the following is a true and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aceompa-nyin g drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l in the vannexed drawings represents a vertical section of the press and bedstead contained within it. Fig. 2 represents a plan view ot' the bedstead when withdrawn from the wardrobe and lying in a horizontal position.

Ihe letter A in Fig. 1 represents the press, which is adapted in size to the bedstead designed to occupy it. The press A is furnished with two sets of folding doors, one set being hinged to each of the sides of press A in front. When the beadstead is to be'withdrawn from the Wardrobe, the doors are thrown back, as

- seen in Fig. 2, letter e. When the bedstead is returned to the press, the doors are swung around and meet at a point midway between the sides ot' press A, and contne the bedstead B securely in its upright position.

The bedstead B consists of the two side rails, f, the head and foot pieces a, and the cross-ties g and h. Near the tie g, and on a level with it, is the broad slat or board b, which is secured to tie g by means of two iron screws, (marked d). Extending from board bto cross-tie h are the flexible slats or cords o o, intended as a support of the bed.

In order to keep the bed snugly in position when within the wardrobe, the slats c c are provided, and are made to extend lengthwise of bedstead B. The opposite ends of slats c have a screw inserted on the upper surface of each, the heads of these screws being designed to enter a slit in the leather straps I, the straps I being nailed inside of head and foot pieces a.

P represents a sand-box resting on the tie g, and intended as a counterpoise to that portion of the bedstead B which, when in a horizontal position, is outside of the press A.

rEhe bedstead B is made to play upon a fulerum consisting oftwo iron bolts or pivots, which penetrate the opposite rails of the bedstead and enter the sides of press A. The footof bedstea-d B is suspended on its pivots so near the back ot' press A as barely to admit B playing freely when raised or lowered. When the bedstead B is in a horizontal position, the slats c are unlooped from the straps I and placed in an upright position within the wardrobe A.

fm represents the legs of the bedstead B, and are hinged to its outer end and made to fold back against the head-board a.

Having thus described my wardrobe-bedstead, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- The arrangement of the sand box or weight I), the adjustable board b, the screws d d, and the cords or ilexible slats c c, in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

W. H. PEASE. Witnesses T. F. INeALLs,

Jos. W. CLAYTON. 

